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1.-OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Magistrates during 1874.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Offences* against

Gambling.

Property (other than Prædial Larceny),

Other Offences.

8,079

627

206

990

6,256

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1874.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Gambling.

Offences* against Property (other than Prædial Larceny).

Other Offences.

193

19

• Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the subjects of Property.

174

II. APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.

·

TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Court by Arrest Warrants or Summons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of

in the Magistrates' Court.

Number Discharged

for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

Number of Cases Dismissed

on

the Merits.

Number of Persons summarily Convicted.

Number of

Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.

Offences against the Person,.

Gambling,....

24

68

78

14

35

:

Offences against Property* other than Prædial Lar- ceny,

Offences against Master and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Inden- tured Coolies,

+

Other Offences,...................

1

20

14

3

:

20

281

2,321

Total Number of Persons

Summoned or Apprehended,

45

380

2,451

4

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NOTE.-Purely Civil Cases in which Magistrates exercise jurisdiction are not to be included in this or the

following Table.

• See foot note (*) above.